Friday Ephemeraren’t
Yes, a glorious opportunity to assemble your own pile of links and oddities in the comments. Gracious host that I am, I’ll set the ball rolling with a display of dad powers; why physicists put a ferret in a particle accelerator; more joys of public transport; a pop icon speaks; and some vintage warnings about the menace of body odour.
Oh, and a headline of note.
Asparagus
Man/cat friendship of note:
https://twitter.com/dodo/status/1112776644454813696
I found two dozen identical copies of that ‘Man Wins Jackpot, Ex-Wife Calls Him’ story, mostly from radio or TV stations. After plowing through them, I found a ‘New York Post’ article. NYP actually seems to have called and interviewed the ex-wife, who said that — No — she had not called her ex, and — No — she wasn’t going to try and get any of the money, and — No — she didn’t want him back.
It’s sad when the ‘New York Post’ is the most professional and responsible news organization covering a story.
Click below, you will laugh.
https://streamable.com/s/ts198/jffdbp
Awww.
Where’s the kitty biker from? I hope he and the cat live happily ever after.
For any who are interested: 9lbs, 1oz and everyone healthy!
Sam!!! Congrats and, boy howdy, that’s a biggin!
Congratulations! 🍸
Does he have a name yet? If you think he’ll grow up to like k-pop, you could call him Third Half.
If you think he’ll grow up to like k-pop…
…begin a program of instruction so it will grow up to like music instead.
Or you could name him Farnsworth. He’d be the only one in his class!
Where’s the kitty biker from?
Dunbar, Scotland
He’d be the only one in his class!
That, and the classiest.
She is named Eliza, though Wakan’da was briefly considered for future university scholarship purposes.
Morning, all.
This just in.
Via Dicentra.
Oh, and congratulations to Sam. Who, I’m sure, did all the heavy lifting and now deserves a nap.
more joys of public transport;
“the bus was already having technical issues and had a lot of noise”
“the bus was already having technical issues and had a lot of noise”
Given the rapid, rather catastrophic disintegration of the bus, the passengers in the video seem remarkably composed. There’s more on the event, which occurred in Brazil a couple of years ago, here:
I suspect the technology hasn’t quite been perfected.
If you like this kind of thing, apparently this episode is one of the better ones.
Young miss unsure of certain concepts.
Young miss unsure of certain concepts.
Handmaidens of Allah.
Why dogs don’t rule the Earth, part 609.
Boy, am I glad this guy isn’t doing MY hair:
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/04/luke-nugent-hair-portraiture/?mc_cid=9db707dec4&mc_eid=d63b7b651c
“Can I interest you in some deodorant?”
“Can I interest you in some deodorant?”
It looks like he’s been eating the deodorant. 😉
Boy, am I glad this guy isn’t doing MY hair:
Couldn’t help but notice the appropriation of gray-blue eyes. I hope the appropriate punishments were dispensed.
This just in.
Be wary, they usually travel in pairs.
“Why dogs don’t rule the Earth, part 609.”
Dammit, I was just talking Border Collies’ intelligence up the other day. Letting the side down there, Fido.
Mind you… you can’t say it didn’t work out in the end, right?
And congratulations, other Sam. 🙂
Be wary, they usually travel in pairs.
So they’re recycling old Woody Allen movies?
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-cherry-blossoms/
Dammit, I was just talking Border Collies’ intelligence up the other day. Letting the side down there, Fido.
Don’t feel too bad Sam. I’ve known people who wouldn’t have figured it out either.
Good Boy.
Good Boy.
Great, another democrat running for President.
After the “men suck” ad, it seems Gillette has really learned its lesson about woke ads.
Good Boy.
These sort of stories pop up from time to time. I think they’ve even appeared on this blog before – I vaguely remember there was something similar from a year or two back, with a passing comment from our host about some of these more over-the-top fetishes being a bit of a faff.
Farnsworth, it’s good marketing when you think about it. What they loose in customer base they more than make up for in square footage.
Good Boy.
Can he lick his own balls?
Oh come on! It’s what you were all wondering!
What is faff?
Looking for some good, quality, as irrefutable as possible links on the uk nhs. This whole Mick Jagger needs heart surgery thing is kinda blowing up over here and as I’m starting a new job and putting out fires left and right in my HOA, I just don’t have the time to do the kind of digging necessary. Plus, nhs ain’t my monkey, ain’t my circus. But somehow, someway, someone thinks I’m accountable for explaining it.
Hi WTP,
I saw a headline to the effect that he already had the surgery.
This whole Mick Jagger needs heart surgery thing
I’ve read he had the surgery in NYC and it was the TAVR procedure rather than open heart surgery.
Oh come on! It’s what you were all wondering!
I was wondering if he still uses a loo, and if not, who the hell is fool enough to clean up after him.
Mazel Tov Sam and Mrs. Sam!
I was wondering, if that guy truly believes he’s a dog, does he greet friends by sniffing their rears? How far does he take it? I think it’s a giant hoax, myself. And I must admit I think it’s pretty funny.
Friday night … something fun and fascinating.
What is faff?
As in faffing about: Pointless or ineffectual activity. Needless fuss. A lot of effort or complication for very little result.
Thank you.
And if anyone is curious, I think these are the comments to which Captain Nemo was referring.
I was thinking more about this story posted by svh, and your subsequent comment about an hour later, than the one you linked to as it happens. But that other comment of yours certainly says much the same thing:
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2016/07/friday-ephemera-1.html?cid=6a00d83451675669e201bb091c8904970d#comment-6a00d83451675669e201bb091c8904970d
I was wondering, if that guy truly believes he’s a dog, does he greet friends by sniffing their rears? How far does he take it? I think it’s a giant hoax, myself…
I believe blogger Zombie has documented such lunatics in her reports from San Francisco.
This is insane. How do police, and a repeat everything media, mistake a 23 year old man with a 5 o’clock shadow going on as a 14 year old boy? One telling a somewhat fantastical story of escape from abduction and 8 years of captivity? Is everyone an idiot? What happened to the term “identifies as”? Seems like it’s used everywhere EXCEPT where it actually would be appropriate.
https://www.cbs58.com/news/illinois-police-investigating-missing-child-case-with-fbi
I was thinking more about this story
I’m now raising an eyebrow at just how often niche fetishes crop up here.